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There is only one woman on the 15-member Los Angeles City Council. Statewide, women have been losing ground at other elected levels. But the emerging field of potential candidates for next year's Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors election raises the odds that women could capture a majority of seats for the first time ever. Some see that prospect as a major milestone in a state where both U.S. senators are women but where representation in lower offices is lagging. Currently, 67 of the 296 county boards of supervisors seats in the state are held by women, according California Women Lead, a nonprofit, nonpartisan association of female officeholders. "Women do approach...

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There is only one woman on the 15-member Los Angeles City Council.
Statewide, women have been losing ground at other elected levels.
But the emerging field of potential candidates for next year's Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors election raises...

After a long-running labor dispute that at times all but closed West Coast ports, the trade gateways--including the nation’s busiest in Los Angeles and Long Beach---are getting back to work.
On Friday evening, shipping companies and the dockworkers...

California political leaders voiced growing exasperation Thursday with a labor standoff that has clogged West Coast ports, as word spread that the main sticking point in negotiations has been the fate of a single, low-level official who rules on...

Rep. Janice Hahn said Tuesday that she will forgo a congressional reelection campaign next year and instead run for an open seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, where her populist father, the late Kenneth Hahn, served for four decades.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday announced its top Democratic targets in next year's House races, including six in California.
The California Democrats include five that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee listed...

A bipartisan group of House members on Thursday called for a "swift resolution" of the labor dispute at West Coast ports, warning that the cargo buildup and partial shutdowns were hurting businesses and posed a major risk to the U.S. economy.
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Democratic state legislator Isadore Hall, who won his state Senate seat in a special election just two months ago, said Thursday he would run for Rep. Janice Hahn's U.S. House post if she decides to try for Los Angeles County supervisor next year.
An...

As Rep. Janice Hahn weighs a run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors — where her late father held a seat for four decades — the San Pedro Democrat faces a rapidly changing district and potentially strong competition for one of the most...

Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino, who represents the southernmost stretches of the city, is considering running for a congressional seat that could be vacated by Rep. Janice Hahn (D-San Pedro).
Hahn is weighing a run for the Los Angeles County...

Rep. Janice Hahn (D-San Pedro) is weighing a run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, among the most powerful local elected jobs in the nation on a body where her father held a seat for four decades.
“In recent months, Rep. Hahn has...

Vice President Joe Biden joined Los Angeles politicians Tuesday to throw his support behind Mayor Eric Garcetti's plan to raise the minimum wage.
"No one in America should be working 40 hours a week and living below the poverty level -- no...

In January, President Obama announced a block-by-block approach to relieving poverty in Los Angeles. Federal money, he said, would pour into a newly created Promise Zone.
The boundaries encompassed crowded immigrant communities around MacArthur Park...

Two members of Congress sent a letter this week to the owners of a closed South Gate trade school demanding that former employees be properly compensated.
The for-profit Career Colleges of America closed suddenly in January after its accreditation...

Plans for the revitalization of the Jordan Downs housing project in Watts have been thrown into disarray after Los Angeles officials learned Monday that the city will not be awarded a $30-million federal grant they had been counting on for the...

Crews worked Tuesday to fix a fingertip-sized hole in an underground pipe that allowed about 1,200 gallons of crude oil to seep onto a quiet residential street in Wilmington.
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A California lawmaker Thursday questioned whether the federal government is providing enough scrutiny of higher education accrediting agencies, citing the controversial decision by a private panel to revoke the accreditation of City College of San...

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In Congress, seniority still matters.
Although lawmakers can no longer earmark funds for home-state projects, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has written into a massive water bill a measure that promises to bring more money to the ports of Los Angeles...

Nineteen Democratic members of Congress from California have signed a letter asking the Obama administration to rescind its rejection of a design for a driver’s license to be issued to up 1.5 million people in the country illegally.
“We encourage you...

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Not that we don't applaud their efforts this week. First, they called on the Federal Communications...